[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:54:37 -0600

Quoth Raymond Hettinger:
 [...]
> Except for conceptual purity, is there any real payoff in terms
> of performance or capability that would warrant a wholesale
> revision of working code?

There's also the question (mentioned in the PEP, albeit
parenthetically) of how implicit instantiation could work with any
future plan to allow new-style exceptions. This point is also
being discussed in the thread on c.l.py; shall we adjourn there?
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Steven Taschuk staschuk@telusplanet.net
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